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Air Raid Wardens
Theatrical poster for Air Raid Wardens (1943)
Directed by	Edward Sedgwick
Produced by	B.F. Zeidman
Written by	Martin Rackin Harry Crane Jack Jevne Charley Rogers
Starring	Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Edgar Kennedy Jacqueline White Stephen McNally Nella Walker Donald Meek Henry O'Neill Howard Freeman Paul Stanton Robert Emmett O'Connor
Music by	Nathaniel Shilkret
Cinematography	Walter Lundin
Editing by	Irvine Warburton
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	April 30, 1943
Running time	67 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	A-Haunting We Will Go
Followed by	Jitterbugs

Air Raid Wardens is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy comedy film. This was the first of their films made at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Synopsis

Set during World War II, Stan and Ollie try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success.They finally open it as a bicycle store but some German spies trick them into partnering the business so that they can use it as a front for a base. Stan and Ollie volunteer as air raid wardens but keep messing up until they are fired. They soon discover that the spies are planning to blow up the local magnesium plant and in the end are heroes as they scupper the plan.

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Silent short films (Starring roles)	The Lucky Dog (1921) • Duck Soup (1927) • Slipping Wives (1927) • Love 'em and Weep (1927) • Why Girls Love Sailors (1927) • With Love and Hisses (1927) • Sugar Daddies (1927) • Now I'll Tell One (1927) • Sailors, Beware! (1927) • The Second Hundred Years (1927) • Hats Off (1927) • Do Detectives Think? (1927) • Putting Pants on Philip (1927) • The Battle of the Century (1927) • Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) • Flying Elephants (1928) • The Finishing Touch (1928) • From Soup to Nuts (1928) • You're Darn Tootin' (1928) • Their Purple Moment (1928) • Should Married Men Go Home? (1928) • Early to Bed (1928) • Two Tars (1928) • Habeas Corpus (1928) • We Faw Down (1928) • Liberty (1929) • Wrong Again (1929) • That's My Wife (1929) • Big Business (1929) • Double Whoopee (1929) • Bacon Grabbers (1929) • Angora Love (1929)

Talking short films (Starring roles)	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) • Berth Marks (1929) • Men O' War (1929) • Perfect Day (1929) • They Go Boom (1929) • The Hoose-Gow (1929) • Night Owls (1930) • Blotto (1930) • Brats (1930) • Below Zero (1930) • Hog Wild (1930) • The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) • Another Fine Mess (1930) • Be Big! (1931) • Chickens Come Home (1931) • Laughing Gravy (1931) • Our Wife (1931) • Come Clean (1931) • One Good Turn (1931) • Beau Hunks (1931) • Helpmates (1932) • Any Old Port! (1932) • The Music Box (1932) • The Chimp (1932) • County Hospital (1932) • Scram! (1932) • Their First Mistake (1932) • Towed in a Hole (1932) • Twice Two (1933) • Me and My Pal (1933) • The Midnight Patrol (1933) • Busy Bodies (1933) • Dirty Work (1933) • Oliver the Eighth (1934) • Going Bye-Bye! (1934) • Them Thar Hills (1934) • The Live Ghost (1934) • Tit for Tat (1935) • The Fixer Uppers (1935) • Thicker than Water (1935)

Short films (As guests)	45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) • Call of the Cuckoo (1927) • The Stolen Jools (1931) • On the Loose (1931) • Wild Poses (1933) • On the Wrong Trek (1936) • The Tree in a Test Tube (1942)

Feature films (Starring roles)	Pardon Us (1931) • Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) • Fra Diavolo/ The Devil's Brother/Bogus Bandits (1933) • Sons of the Desert (1933) • Babes in Toyland (1934) • Bonnie Scotland (1935) • The Bohemian Girl (1936) • Our Relations (1936) • Way Out West (1937) • Swiss Miss (1938) • Block-Heads (1938) • The Flying Deuces (1939) • A Chump at Oxford (1940) • Saps at Sea (1940) • Great Guns (1941) • A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) • Air Raid Wardens (1943) • Jitterbugs (1943) • The Dancing Masters (1943) • The Big Noise (1944) • Nothing But Trouble (1944) • The Bullfighters (1945) • Atoll K / Utopia (1951)

Feature films (As guests)	The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) • The Rogue Song (1930) • Hollywood Party (1934) • Pick a Star (1937)

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	Jacqueline White (Actor, Drama/War)
	Howard Freeman (Actor, Comedy/Drama)
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